My nightmare female neighbour bit my EAR ‘like an animal’ during row
A WOMAN has told how she was left with a bloodied face after her nightmare neighbour bit her during a row.
Danielle Ascroft,44, needed ten stitches after Kerry Trainer bit her face and right ear during a street attack in Newcastle.
Trainer was sentenced to 12 months behind bars during a hearing at Newcastle Crown Court after admitting unlawful wounding. The mum-of-one was also handed a restraining order.
Trainer launched the vicious attack after the two women fell to the floor, the court heard
Danielle's husband Miles tried to save her as Trainer pulled clumps of hair from her head and bit into her flesh.
Danielle told "She pulled me into her face and she had me by the roots. I could feel her breath on my face. It felt like she was biting through a bit of gristle.
"I couldn't feel any pain, I think it must have been the adrenaline at the time. Her teeth went right the way through which caused a flap. She bit down really hard.
"My husband took me home and I went straight to the mirror. There was a gaping hole in my face. It was just like a massive flap. I was really, really shocked.
"I never thought she would do anything like this. It's low - it's like being an animal really."
Danielle was confronted by Trainer swinging a bottle of wine above her head on August 14 last year, the court heard.
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Danielle said: "Kerry was there and she started going for me. He was trying to get the bottle off her.
"Fear just went over me. I was like what is she going to do? I was just so scared. My husband came out. He had to physically grab her arm to get her off me."
The court heard the attack had a big impact on her mental health and she was unable to leave the house for months.
Danielle was reluctant to leave her home and has since undergone plastic surgery.
She said: "I was like a hermit in my own house. I wouldn't leave because I was too scared. I couldn't go outside for three or four months. I've had six telephone counselling sessions."
When arrested, Trainer, from Ennerdale, Heworth, in Gateshead, initially claimed Danielle was the aggressor.
After Trainer was jailed Danielle added: "I'm very happy with the sentence, I'm ecstatic."
